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♪ Song of the Day ♫
After the failure of their previous album (Falling Into Infinity), it was crunch time for the band. They decided to do a follow up of "Metropolis Pt. 1: The Miracle and The Sleeper" from their album Images and Words. The album was titled Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. The song "Home" was hailed (and still is) a Prog Metal masterpiece. The song is an amazing performance from all the band members, especially Jordan Rudess on keyboards.
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- Nominated by Clancy
Album of the Week
Frequently hailed as one of the most influential electric blues albums of all time, it was the album that truly introduced Eric Clapton to the music scene. His guitar playing on John Mayall classics like "Little Girl", "Key to Love", and "Have You Heard" is fantastic. And his explosive solos on "Steppin' Out" rival his later recording of "Crossroads" with Cream. And "Ramblin' on My Mind" was the first time Clapton performed lead vocals. All in all, it's a definite requirement for any music collector.
- Nominated by Cubs Fan2007
Free Music of the Week
The Butcher's Ballroom is an album that truly spans across many genres: orchestral/symphonic, swing, hard rock, and many others; it is best described by avant garde metal. It is an interesting journey through many worlds of music. The Diablo Swing Orchestra is also an enigmatic story. According to this Candlelight Records bio, the band is a tribute (made of living ancestors) to a 16th century Swedish orchestra who also made who also sounded like no other musical act around at the time. DSO is definitely something to check out. Download the album at jamendo
- Nominated by User:WillMak050389
Editors' Corner
» Wikia
LyricWiki in the old sense of the word has shut down. However, the entire contents has been contributed to this new wiki which is run by Wikia. Wikia has a licensing deal with music publishers, so the project will be able to survive and thrive!
Read more about these changes in The Announcement.
Unfortunately, licensing agreements with the biggest publishers in the music industry require us to no longer offer the ability for programmatic access to LyricWiki's collection of lyrics.
We tried to arrange some way to let API Developers license through us, but this was not possible.
While this is not something we are happy about, it is a necessity in order to finally secure licensing for LyricWiki from the major publishers which will allow the project to survive indefinitely.
For more info, please see the letter to API Developers
Thanks to the concentrated efforts of all the editors who took this project on board, there are now just 61 songs needing language identification. So how's about we give it our best shot over the next few weeks to reduce this figure to zero?
For the benefit of all our new editors, here's what needs doing: the language of the lyrics of all the songs found in the above category need to be identified and entered in the language parameter of the SongFooter (N.B. using the English language name).
Happy editing!
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